Visting Lorelei, are you ?
That area produces world class wine and I'd strongly encourage you to have a Riesling there because all the beer you are likely to find is imported Bitburger and other industrial brew.

Okay, one of the members other than the curmudgeonly Stahlsturm ought to be able to give some examples.

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Truth stays truth even if you denounce me as "curmudgeonly"
There are breweries in Koblenz but nothing is closer than that and the OP may or may not be lucky in finding something good but in all likelyhood wherever he turns he'll find 2 pages of white wine and several sizes of Bitburger in any given menue.

Visting Lorelei, are you ?
That area produces world class wine and I'd strongly encourage you to have a Riesling there because all the beer you are likely to find is imported Bitburger and other industrial brew.

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On our bike trip last summer -- with the exception of some passible beer in Koblenz and

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-- it was pretty much a beer wasteland along the Rhine once we left Köln (even Brauhaus Bönsch was crap). I was so tired of Bitburger! It wasn't until

Herr B seems to think it's not that much of a wasteland. After all, it is Germany... I think I could find something worth drinking that was made with barley malt and not grapes!

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You could, but you have to remember that there aren't much in the way of local breweries in the Rheingau. Koenigsbacher was pretty good, but the brands are part of Bitburg now, so I don't know how that one is today.

I'm, sure one could find some Jever or Koenig also.

Edit - This is the part of Germany where every village has multiple wineries. The Rheingau Reisling is so good that my wife found that she liked it. There are many excellent small wineries that aren't know out of the region. Our German friends would say "Jeff, in France they drink the crap, and export the good stuff. Here we export the crap, and drink the good stuff ourselves!"

Edit - This is the part of Germany where every village has multiple wineries.

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I know it's a different area than what we're discussing, but a wine area nonetheless; I had the good opportunity to spend a long weekend in Würzburg where I thought the 2 cultures blended quite well. I wish I could remember the Dunkelweizen we were drinking at a small fest near the Dom, but it was quite nice. And our hotel was on the ridge overlooking the river and vineyards, serving some nice examples of the local wines.

Our German friends would say "Jeff, in France they drink the crap, and export the good stuff. Here we export the crap, and drink the good stuff ourselves!"

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Hah. But see, I'd bet that even the crap wine in France is pretty good, just like much of the "crap" beer in Germany.

20 years on top of me would put you beyond what's conventionally considered retirement age...

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So I took it upon myself to do a little research and discovered that the retirement age is the same in Germany as it is here in the U.S. -- so I gave you credit for being a much more youthful Kopf-Schläger!